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November.
traditional
clothing.
Jiang is a man of severe countenance and wears the
"Zhong Shan" suit rather than modern western
Nevertheless, he is capable of showing good humour
relaxed and we were able to establish a good
personal working relationship with him during the two dinners
that we attended together].
and being
5.
The meeting was held in the Drug Administration
Bureau, 44 Houhai Beiyan, which is an old imperial palace. It
started off in a rather stiff and formal manner. Jiang read
from a prepared script. He compared the drug situation before
and after 1949.
He explained how in recent years
international traffickers had been trying to channel drugs by
land through China as an alternative to the traditional air
and sea routes because of pressure put on them by law
enforcement bodies.
Transfer of drugs from the Golden
Triangle into China was facilitated by the long border between
western China and Burma
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Jiang asserted his concern not to
permit China to be a conduit for drugs. He then gave some
examples of the severity with which drug traffickers were
treated in China e.g. in 1986, in the Yunnan Province, 22.7 kg
of heroin was seized in one case and two of the three
traffickers in that case were sentenced to death.
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6.
Jiang then described how drugs were controlled in
China. According to Article 171 of the Criminal Law of the
People's Republic of China (revised in 1983), any person
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